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- Good, Bad but Beautiful is a 1975 album by Shirley Bassey. In the first half of the decade, Bassey recorded nine albums, with three making the top ten. In March 1975, Bassey released a compilation that became her highest-charting album to date, The Shirley Bassey Singles Album (#2), and reflects the momentum Bassey had maintained since her 1970 "comeback". Good, Bad but Beautiful, released in the autumn of 1975, spent seven weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at #13, and earned a silver disc. The album reflects the formula that brought Bassey back to the charts: a combination of contemporary songs combined with her forte of standards, show tunes, and torch songs, featuring arrangements aimed squarely at the adult contemporary, or middle-of-the-road, audience. This was also achieved by modifying her backup orchestra to include electric guitars, a string and brass section with a more contemporary sound, and drumming that is more soft rock-oriented than jazz-oriented, while side two's opener, "Feel Like Makin' Love" displays a smooth jazz style. This was Bassey's seventh album of the 1970s to make the Billboard 200, peaking at #186. It also reached #54 on the US R&B chart. In the UK the album was awarded a silver disc six weeks after it was released. The original release was in stereo on vinyl and cassette. In 2005, BGO Records issued a remastered Good, Bad but Beautiful, together with the 1973 album Never Never Never, on a 2-CD set. (en)
- Good, Bad, but Beautiful est le vingtième album studio de Shirley Bassey, sorti en 1975. Il sort après la déception commerciale de Nobody Does It Like Me. Good, Bad, but Beautiful est classé no 13 au UK Albums Chart et remporte un disque d'argent un mois après sa sortie avec plus de 60 000 exemplaires vendus mais se classe beaucoup moins bien que Never Never Never au Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks (no 54) comme au Billboard 200 (no 186). L'album contient la chanson Send in the Clowns, extraite de la comédie musicale A Little Night Music de Stephen Sondheim et seul véritable succès populaire du compositeur ; une version personnelle de , extrait de l'émission 1, rue Sésame et popularisée par les Carpenters ; Emotion de Véronique Sanson chantée la même année par Helen Reddy ; Jesse de Janis Ian, de Stevie Wonder et The Way We Were, Golden Globe de la meilleure chanson originale, Oscar de la meilleure chanson originale en 1974 et Grammy Award de la chanson de l'année en 1975 pour Barbra Streisand. Par contre, ni les singles Good, Bad But Beautiful (UP 35837, avec I'm Nothing Without You en face B) et (UP 36007, avec Everything That Touches You en face B) n'entrent au hit-parade. Good, Bad, but Beautiful sort en 33 tours avec une pochette signée Richard Avedon, cassette audio et cartouche stéréo, puis est réédité par avec Never Never Never en double disque compact en 2005. (fr)
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- Good, Bad but Beautiful is a 1975 album by Shirley Bassey. In the first half of the decade, Bassey recorded nine albums, with three making the top ten. In March 1975, Bassey released a compilation that became her highest-charting album to date, The Shirley Bassey Singles Album (#2), and reflects the momentum Bassey had maintained since her 1970 "comeback". Good, Bad but Beautiful, released in the autumn of 1975, spent seven weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at #13, and earned a silver disc. The album reflects the formula that brought Bassey back to the charts: a combination of contemporary songs combined with her forte of standards, show tunes, and torch songs, featuring arrangements aimed squarely at the adult contemporary, or middle-of-the-road, audience. This was also achieved by mo (en)
- Good, Bad, but Beautiful est le vingtième album studio de Shirley Bassey, sorti en 1975. Il sort après la déception commerciale de Nobody Does It Like Me. Good, Bad, but Beautiful est classé no 13 au UK Albums Chart et remporte un disque d'argent un mois après sa sortie avec plus de 60 000 exemplaires vendus mais se classe beaucoup moins bien que Never Never Never au Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks (no 54) comme au Billboard 200 (no 186). (fr)
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